Divergent

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. How does Beatrice feel before the Choosing Ceremony?

A) Excited and certain, yet somewhat sad

B) Unsure, divided, and very nervous

C) Agitated, angry, and extremely resentful

D) Joyful, focused, yet intensely tired

2. How does Beatrice change after joining Dauntless?

A) She changes her name and finds joy in gaining physical strength.

B) She realizes she is afraid of heights and changes her professional goals.

C) She becomes more timid and less outspoken, following others more.

D) She learns to drive and decides to leave the city for good.

3. In what way are Eric and Four alike?

A) They are both consistently and unapologetically vicious.

B) They both used to be in Abnegation and chose Dauntless.

C) They are both in charge of training new Dauntless initiates.

D) They both developed the tradition of ziplining in their faction.

4. What surprising revelations does Tris learn about her mom?

A) Her mom lived for years as Erudite and is friends with Jeanine still.

B) Her mom once worked as a security officer and knows several violent ways to fight.

C) Her mom grew up in the Dauntless faction and knows how to use a gun.

D) Her mom had been in Abnegation her entire life and had developed the initiation process.

5. What common goal do leaders of Dauntless and Erudite share?

A) War against Abnegation to gain more control and leadership

B) The most initiates choosing their factions each year

C) Full truth at any cost about how Abnegation took power in the area

DThe best-paying jobs for the members of their factions

6. Which faction would most value volunteering at a homeless shelter?

A) Abnegation

B) Candor

C) Erudite

D) Dauntless

7. Which faction would most value discovering the truth even if it harms people in the faction personally?

A) Abnegation

B) Candor

C) Erudite

D) Dauntless

8. What trait from Abnegation helps Tris in the fear simulations?

A) Fearlessness

B) Joyfulness

C) Truthfulness

D) Selflessness

9. Which of the following is the correct order of events?

A) Tris realizes she is Divergent; Tris learns Four was originally in Abnegation; Four joins Dauntless; Jeanine controls Four’s mind

B) Tris learns Four was originally in Abnegation; Four joins Dauntless; Jeanine controls Four’s mind; Tris realizes she is Divergent

C) Jeanine controls Four’s mind; Tris realizes she is Divergent; Four joins Dauntless; Tris learns Four was originally in Abnegation

D) Four joins Dauntless; Tris realizes she is Divergent; Tris learns Four was originally in Abnegation; Jeanine controls Four’s mind

10. In the novel, what does Divergent mean?

A) The person exhibited the tendency to seek out trouble for every faction except their own.

B) The person’s aptitude test as a teenager did not clearly reveal one faction that was best for them.

C) The person’s choices in the Choosing Ceremony would lead to violence in their new faction.

D) The person was one of the founding members of the factions years ago and had the most power.

11. Which of the following most causes Tris to be the top-ranked Dauntless initiate?

A) Speaking out against Abnegation

B) Refusing to forgive Al

C) Navigating her fear landscape

D) Fighting Peter despite their differences in size

12. Which of the following would Dauntless most punish?

A) Weakness

B) Divergence

C) Strength

D) Violence

13. How are Four’s father and Tris’s father different?

A) Tris’s father is a leader in Abnegation, but Four’s father does not have a leadership role.

B) Four’s father joined Dauntless, while Tris’s father stayed in Abnegation.

C) Four’s father beat him, while Tris’s father did not abuse her physically.

D) Tris’s father was factionless for years, but Four’s father remained in Abnegation.

14. Why were the factions started?

A) Leaders from an outside country mandated factions with strict rules after the area lost a war.

B) People believed citizens needed to live separately in order to realize their best versions of themselves.

C) The factions started by chance, with those in different neighborhoods labeling traits that they all shared.

D) Some people decided personality traits caused conflict but could not agree on what traits were best.

15. How does the novel end?

A) With mostly clear answers about how the factions will move forward and a ceremony

B) With Tris and Four parting ways and a clear focus on faction over family

C) With Jeanine’s death and hope for the future leader, who promises to rule with compassion

D) With Tris and Four working together, reflection, and numerous unanswered questions

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How do Tris, her mother, Four, and Jeanine view those who are Divergent?

2. What does it mean to be factionless?